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“Pakistan’s security services maintain ties to Afghan insurgent groups, most notably the Haqqani Network, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that has become an official, semiautonomous component of the Taliban,” CRS, which periodically prepares reports on issues of importance for Congressmen for them to make informed decisions, said.
Victory Day Parade is an annual event that takes place at the Red Square, Moscow on May 9 to commemorate the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. India will also be participating in the 2020 edition of the parade.
US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback met the Dalai Lama in Dharmshala on Monday. Mr Brownback hit out at what he called China’s “persecution” of the Tibetan people’s faith and said they have the right to choose their own religious leaders.
The US has asked Pakistan why it is only bothered about the human rights of Muslims in Kashmir and is not highlighting the “horrific conditions” that continue to exist for the members of the community throughout China.
In a long, elaborate press conference that followed the announcement, about which he had given a head’s up on Twitter earlier, Trump repeatedly said Baghdadi died “like a dog … screaming and crying and whimpering … scared out of his mind”.
When the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meets in Paris to review Pakistans case on fight against terror, it must take cognisance of a recent question posed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – “Whether it is 9/11 or 26/11, in which country are the conspirators found?”
“We already enjoyed freedom while living in India for over sixty years. In one way, I’m a refugee but I enjoy India’s freedom,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
A hashtag #Modigoback was trending on Friday morning. Government sources have informed India Today TV that Twitter handles responsible for trending #Modigoback on the social media platform have been traced and most of them originate from Pakistan.
The reference to Hong Kong, however, is unlikely to please China, which has completely snubbed any criticism of its clampdown and made critics bend to its will. Anti-government protests have rocked the city for four months now as what started as a stir against a now withdrawn extradition bill have since morphed into protests against what Hong Kongers see as Beijing’s increasing influence on the territory.
Addressing the General Assembly Third Committee session on ‘Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children’ on Thursday, First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripathi, without naming Pakistan, said one delegation had yet again chosen to distract the attention of the Committee with its “deceitful political propaganda by weaving fake narratives, while making unwarranted references to internal matters of my country”.
